How many friends you have, what jobs you have, in any relationship? ect.

About yourself in SL.

Ok, I have 5 friends. Two of them I mainly hang out with, the others not so much as i used to, but I see them from time to time.

I dont have any job and im not in any relationship.

I got into sl by stumbling by the website. I was searching "second sight" and on the search one of the websites was second life. I looked at it and joined.

I just mainly go around exploring, but not on sl much

Geez - we don't even have to go to a special site for the surveys any more.

Personally I don't think the quantity of friends you have in your list is as important as the quality of the people in your list. Yes, friendships come and go, but I only have 5 people in my list at the moment and 2 are people i have known most of my life. 2 others are recent additions, but I have known them here in the forums and learned what great people they are. Hang in there, things can get better.

Last I checked, was almost 200. Its mainly because I make friends easily and never delete them unless they are assholes. Most of them I havent seen in a while, but I dont like to delete people.

Though I have a lot of very close friends, some have helped me through tough times, and have helped them through tough times. I am very protective and saportive of my friends. If someone messes with me directly, I dont care. If someone messes with one of my friends then I get pissed. I dont step in unless I see that the person is really bothering them and my friend is being upset by it.

With jobs,
1st job.
Host at a metal club called Grindhouse. Worked there for a while, but quit because the owner went insane and fired most of the people. I didnt quit becaue I thought I might get fired, I quit because he made some of my friends upset and hurt, and I just lost it and yelled at him and quit. He kept trying to get me back though.

2nd job.
Host at a metal club called Shock Therapy. Still work there. The owner is one of my close friends that used to work at grindhouse as a dj.

3rd job.
Host and male dancer at a metal club called Devils Paradise. No longer work there because it was sold and taken down.

4th job.
Male stripper at a club called tantric. I quickly lost interest in it so i quit.

5th job.
DJ at a metal club called fangs. Still work there.

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Relationships.
I have been with my gf for almost 6 months. We met on sl in november. We became partners on january 31st. We are very close.

I have a number of very close friends that mean a lot to me.



Learned about sl from the discovery channel on a show called "the evolution of video games" became a member on october 29, 2007.

My avatar is a vampire, and I am easy to talk to and am very friendly. When people bring me drama, i just dont care. I ether ignor it, change to a totally different subject, or just blabber on like a crazy man.

I ether explore, shop, hang out with friends, work, or other.

I'm a sociable person and I go to quite a few clubs, so I have quite a lot of regular acquaintances that I chat to. But they are not on my friends list. I have about 20 on the list but they are mostly lapsed friendships - people who offered me friendship but we didn't keep up.

I do not do any jobs in SL, but I make most of my own things and offer some of them for sale in my little shop. I did do one photo assignment for someone at a club event.

I have always been happily single in SL.

My friends list is pretty long; not sure exactly how many are on it! Some were friends in rl before I joined sl, some are friends in rl who have joined sl after I told them about it. Many are friends I have only met in sl but whom I still consider 'real' friends, since geography doesn't matter to me in terms of friendship.
I have a store and a mall. Not really a job, unless that makes me self-employed. Together with my husband's garden store and landscaping business we net a small profit ( about £500) each month after tier and membership.
My partner is my rl husband.

I have around 15 people on my list, most of them fairly close, and a couple who are not-so-much, mostly because they're new and I haven't had a chance to really hang out with them yet.

I don't have a 'job' in SL as yet. I'm a contributor for SL Things To Do (slthingstodo.com) and I have my blog, but neither are paying gigs.

Relationship? ... that's a sticky question. I'll get back to you on that.

I joined SL once I got a PC that was able to handle it, a gift from a close friend. I'd written about it as an outsider for a few years when I had a site that followed news stories about Ultima Online - people kept making comparisons between the economies.

When I'm not tied up with projects and writing, I spend a lot of time exploring, shopping (yes, unlike RL, I love to shop in SL) and having dates with female friends.

My friends list has about 65 names on it, a mixture of , friends, acuaintances and RP contacts. Some I don't see very often, I'm not on a lot lately.

I'm not interested in any type of job in SL, nor any sort of serious relationship. Those things are better left to RL.

Hmmm, friends list, around 25, but really only talk to about 5 on a daily basis.

Relationship, YES! She is sooooo much fun!!! ♥♥♥

Work, NO, yuck! No camping either, I spend all my free time (which I really only have a few hrs a day) playing and exploring SL.
I buy all my $L. LOL

Well, lets see...

Being a classic introvert, my friends list is fairly small.

I think I have 30 or so names on it. But most of them aren't in SL anymore. Most of the rest are former clients that I keep in touch with for future work. Only 2 or 3 would I consider actual friends, and stay in contact with.

My job: I do custom scripting. But I am at a point where I can be picky about the jobs I take on. I enjoy SL for the fun, not the work. As long as I can stay busy enough to pay tier, and have spending money, that is busy enough!

No 'relationship'. IMO, a serious relationship in SL is a recipe for heartache. No thank you!

I have many people on my friends list, mostly business or group related, a few close friends. When I came to SL, my first jobs were as a very successful (L-wise) stripper. I met my fiancee in SL and currently am spending 3 weeks in Holland in RL with him. He will be emigrating to the US later this year, so he is the most important thing to come out of SL for me.
I have been a club owner of two different clubs, got bored with it and will be selling our current club. We started a group for people like us with SL to RL relationships. That so far, has been the most satisfying thing that is kind of work related.

-Blu- (Hoi from Holland!)

I don't know how many names I have on my friends list, guess that they are more than 100, as said by Duane many of them are business related

As for job I never had one: I tend to work for my own:

April 14th - Interiorism Art Gallery opened in the City of Liome (one of Avion Raymaker's several SIMs) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Liome/182/31/44 a place where I show works of painters that I own RL serigraphies

On May I become Pixeldolls reseller:
May 19th - Pixeldolls in the City of Liome has open also in the same SIM http://slurl.com/secondlife/Liome/196/65/44
July - Pixeldolls at Av dos Aliados (a portuguese SIM that is opening now)

(all the other shops are too small or are closed already)

Relations? well, I had already some but now I'm improving the friendship relations

I have about 20 people on my friends list. About 1/2 of the I consider very good friends. Half of those are people I speak with very regularly. I try and keep my friends list only to people I really want to know. I'm not big on making friends I meet only once. I really have to get to know a person before I want to extend myself to them. Only rarely have I befriended someone instanenously and have I felt I made the right decision. There are a few on my list that I haven't spoken to in a while and keep meaning to get in touch with. It's difficult because I'm not inworld as much as I'd like to be, although that may be changing.

I have no desire to have a job in SL. I'm here for social reasons only. Wait, let me amend that, not entirely true. I do enjoy photography a lot and have been playing around with it. If I had more time, I'd devote more energy to it. But, I don't know if I'd ever make it a job per se. My RL pays way better than I could ever hope to make in SL.

Relationship? I have someone I spend a lot of time with and know extremely well. I'll leave it at that for now

I see dead people.
It keeps me pretty busy.
My RL reminds me to eat sometimes.

I'm fairly introverted, so my FL has about 20-25 or so on it. I prune it pretty regularly as well these days. I don't friend everyone I meet, and I have quite a few acquaintances in world who are not "friends".

No job, haven't worked in SL in a long time. I fund SL from RL's entertainment budget.

Relationship? Yes, very happily in one.

I only have around 15 friends on my friends list, but I cull it regularly. Mostly those that get culled are the ones who offer friendship, yet never really speak to you again. Two days tops, if there is no communication within a couple of days, bye bye. LOL I've even had someone offer friendship and 3 days later ask me who I was. Pffft...bye bye.
Those of my 15 or so current friends are either work related, or are people that I truly care about.

Relationship yes. My partner is one who I met within a couple of days of logging on, and in SL he's only a month older than me. We are strictly a SL couple though. He has however come closer to knowing more if anything about my RL than I can say anyone else has.

My Jobs - I was an all around camping bum at the start of my tenure in SL. Since then, I've been a slingo host, a pizza host and currently I write tutorials and teach others how to build.

And ya know, for the life of me I don't recall how it was that I came across SL....I remember signing up for it, just don't recall how it was that I came to find it. Meh...probably just surfing around.

WAIT! I remembers now! I found SL through a Sims2 Forum that I used to frequent. One of the other members posted about it. Hehe that was the end of The Sims2 for me. I could do everything I did there AND interact with real people on SL. So yeah...here I am.

Just guessing, I'd say I have maybe 20-25 on my friends list, but some of those are from when I first joined or newbies who friended me in case they needed someone to answer questions. There are probably 5 people I'm really in touch with.

I was a hostess at a PG-rated formal club for over a year, but the owners recently retired so I'm no longer employed. I'm not really looking for another job, though I'd take the right one if it came along.

My SL partner is my RL husband. When we joined SL he was living and working 4 hours away from home and we used SL to stay in touch. Ironically, now that he's living here again, bandwidth issues keep us from spending much time in-world together. Still better this way, I think!

I found SL through a friend on a message board who posted there to recommend it.

I haven't spent much time in SL lately, mostly just logging in to clear messages. I like exploring, and shopping for obscure stuff, but I spend a lot of time on my land, working on my home and building things. I also like to put together theme outfits and then find an appropriate place to take pictures of them. Sort of exploring, I guess...

Pixieplumb, as a long-time customer, I'm surprised with all the hard work you and your husband do that is all you wind up netting. You really do this out of love then, don't you? All I can say is a huge thanks!

At last count I had well over 200 ppl on my friends list and of those probably just a dozen that I talk to at least once a week. Many more are the type that we give a shout out to from time to time keeping up with how things are going for each other (and really those are the best kind of friends). Most are noobs that offer me friendship or people that I’ve helped. I seldom remove people from the list. I have on occasions had a noob contact me after not being on in a while and tell me I was the only person on their list. How sad that would have been had I deleted them.

My first and only job has been with Language Lab. They approached me last fall to see if any of the Voice Mentors would be interested in helping their students with setting up and using voice. Now its more of a helper/mentor position assisting the new residents that join SL through the Language Lab website. Its one of those rare opportunities that comes about by being in the right place at the right time and I am fortunate to have such a fun and well paying job in SL.

Relationships? Yes!

I think of it more as SL found me rather then me finding SL

fifty-odd in the friends list, though paradoxically the people I am most friendly with are not necessarily in the list - capital-F Friends are in there so I can get to know them better, then once I have actually brefriended them i talk to them as I meet them. perhaps that's revealing; I dunno.

What is revealing is that I ain't got no job. Never been offered, never tried and I suspect I'd not be able to put the time in even if I was...

I tried working through my alt as a dancer and later as a store greeter. The pay was ok but I got really bored with both jobs and they truly seemed like work. You had to get there on time, stay for the whole shift, work late, etc. It was mostly boring but I did learn a few things and the steady pay started me thinking of getting a place to live. Something I never thought of before. The most important thing I learned is doing something that isn't fun in SL even if it pays... is just not worth it.

I'm interested in the various ways people use and view the friend's list.

For me, I like everything neat and current. I won't allow my inventory to exceed 5K and it is generally in the high 3000 range. Same with friends list.

Interestingly, the majority of people on my friends list offered the friendship, rarely vice versa. (/ponders that awhile) Plus the people on my list rotate frequently depending on what activity I'm involved in. (Examples: I used to do the scheduling of staff for a nightclub so all the employees were on my list for that purpose. Most of them I wouldn't call "friends." That club is now gone and so are the people from my list. Now I'm taking a class that is very time intensive. The instructors have friended all the students. I doubt after my class is over they will remain.)

Now my partner has the theory that once someone lands on his friend's list...they stay there forever.

So "friends" where the SL friends list is concerned can be anything from true friends to acquaintances to co-workers to instructors, etc.

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Yes, I know I'm rambling. I'm waiting for one of those "We'll be there between 10-12" deliveries and I'm sort of chained to the house.

Yup, we do!! But it's the fun of it really, and since we never intended to go into business in sl, it's rather nice to turn a hobby into a profit, however small. If we didn't have rl jobs it might be different, and I know there are peeps in world for whom it is a rl income, but the anonymity makes it hard to know for sure. Also, I'm in no hurry to give any of it to the tax man!!

Hi

I add people relatively fast to my friends list, but delete them when they dont stay in touch. Reminds me, I have to clean up the list again.

I am in daily contact with very few of them. On a weekly basis with about 5 or 6 plus some roleplay contacts (at times there was a whole panther tribe on my list).

Jobs, well I am in the process of opening a advertising agency in second life. Relationships...nope nothing serious, just friends (some with benefits hahaha).

Had in the past a SL-girlfriend but that didnt last long actually....(yes I am BI)

Regards

Mag